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• 1. Donnie MacIntyre  |  May 14th, 2007 at 10:07 am

  I suppose there are plenty of perfectly logical reasons for the military to impose these rules, but it’s a shame that the troops can’t make use of these video and social networking sites to stay in touch with friends and family while they are away on duty.

• 2. Rob  |  May 14th, 2007 at 11:07 am

  For three years the military has allowed troops to e-mail, blog, share pics and videos online and now they’ve realized belatedly that the way to keep troops and the people back home happy is to restrict their online access so they can better devote their attentions to smoking terrorists out of their holes. You see, happiness isn’t being able to communite with loved ones in real time from thousands of miles away. Happiness is a clean rifle, a pack of smokes, fresh batteries for your night vision goggles and the promise of another chance to play IED roulette on the next combat patrol.

  So endeth the sarcasm.

  Pandora’s Box already opened three years ago, and the word is already out about what’s going on in Iraq. These latest regs will change one thing: The people who abide by the rules will stop posting positive content. The people who don’t abide the rules will figure a way around them to continue to post negative content.

• 3. Navy Guy  |  May 14th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

  I must say, as a member of the Armed Forces, that this was an unfortunately necessary move. It’s actually been in effect for months now at most commands. The problem is that when you look at the usage reports you find out how many work hours are being wasted every single day because people are browsing My Space, etc. Also, these sites have always been blocked because of operational security reasons.

  This doesn’t JUST apply to Soldiers in Iraq people. It’s the ENTIRE military.

• 4. Rob  |  May 14th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

  Navy Guy - Yup, I know it applies to everyone but the big push is to squelch commentary online from the troops in Iraq. If we weren’t at war right now this wouldn’t be such an issue, but we are and the DoD is just issuing a blanket censor against all electronic content sharing under the guise of OPSEC.

• 5. !  |  May 14th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

  i take exception to the term “how many work hours are being wasted every single day” too.

  from my perspective, every hour spent in iraq is wasted.

  so there.

• 6. Jason  |  May 15th, 2007 at 5:57 am

  We did this as a story in our 10 p.m. news last night. It’s interesting to me that soldiers use MySpace to post videos and family members use support sites to upload their own videos for the soldier to see. Click my name for the link and video.

• 7. GI Joe aka IED cannon fodder  |  May 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am

  As a member of the military i feel this is a good thing because its a matter of security talking points for radio gas bag, blah blah blah, not in fact if this was a security issue this should have happened years ago.

  Back to reality,

  The logical explanation is.

  Soldiers + Video = post on line

  Video viewed by John Q Public.

  Video != The Rosy wonderful vacation spot Iraq, That bush sent them on 5 years ago

  Iraq War Turns into larger giant turd for republicans and diddo heads.

  Order comes down to block access to most sites that allow open blogging and video posting, and use a BS issue such as bandwidth, time wasting.

  War is back rosy again, everyone is happy. Haliburton rejoices.

  Soldiers go back to stopping around the roadsides looking for IED’s.

  Soldier comes home to walter reid, minus limbs, What parts of the Soldier buddy which can be found is shipped home in a box, who died in vain for an unappreciative group of people neck deep in civil war.

  (same outcome as if there were no Internet service in Iraq)

  If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s damn sure not a pigeon.

• 8. Mark  |  May 18th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

  The Soldier’s job is not to view You-Tube and My Space. His job is to follow the orders, WITHOUT QUESTION, of the chain of command. A soldier is not a civilian. A solder is a person who VOLINTARILY gave up his rights and freedoms to protect your rights and freedoms. If the chain of command deems it necissary to block You-Tube and My Space then that soldiers duty is to obey that order. If they continue to post on You-Tube, then they are disobeying the direct order of a superior officer and can be court-martialed. If that soldier divulges information on My Space that provides aid and comfort to the enemy, Then that soldier could be tried for treason and executed.

  The soldier knew exactly what he was getting into when he enlisted. If he cannot follow orders he should not have signed up.

• 9. matt gill  |  May 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

  Actually the odd thing is that myspace is pushing soldiers videos.. but not the kind that show all the dead kids and reality over there… just the ones that show stuff blowing up to nelly and 50 cent songs… how stupid and idiotic… i smell a rat… that might not seem like much but with all the kids on myspace and all the “pro”motional military videos it probably helps recrute the idiots…oh and im a veteran myself so… think what you want…you cant even post anything “bad” about those videos it gets removed instantly… even if the person posting is not online… now i know you can switch it off so it doesnt show someone online… but i tested this out all day with one single video… i spent and wasted 15 hours of my memorial day following one particular video… if im wrong those fuckers have less of a life than me..

• 10. matt gill  |  May 26th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

  nice balls you braindead losers…. when you stop using your mind you are essentially braindead.. and not living… although moving… like a zombie… all romeros films were about us…and all the “tough” fuckers out there screaming about security and all that shit… we pretty much smoked that pole on 9/11… our security obviously either sucks or is non-existent.. why start… TERRORISTS… im sure…its a feeling… next well have Angerists that want to spread anger.. then something else… too bad we are all guilty of being stupidists… we spread stupidity every time we open our mouths… now go read about cell phones on airlines you monkeys…

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